Publications

October 2023
Case

Social Finance: Driving Accountability

By: Robin Greenwood, Richard S. Ruback and Robert Ialenti

Social Finance is a Boston-based nonprofit that works at the intersection of finance and policy. It raises, allocates, and manages capital to fund projects in the areas of education, early childhood development, criminal justice, and health. The case explores how... View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Nonprofit Organizations; Training

2022
Working Paper

A Conceptualization of Sub-Living Wages: Liabilities, Leverage, and Risk

By: Drew Keller, Katie Panella and George Serafeim

Currently the accounting system records employee wages as an expense in the income statement. However, paying below living wages can expose an organization to reputational and operational risks. In this paper, we offer an alternative conceptualization of the issue of... View Details

Keywords: Accounting; Impact Accounting; Leverage; Wages; Compensation and Benefits; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business and Government Relations; Social Issues; Human Capital

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18 Oct 2016
Op-Ed

Why Business Should Invest in Community Health

more pressing crisis management activities. Local sales organizations, which are often tasked with local-level implementation of community health activities, prioritize product sales, supply, and... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch, Howard Koh, and Pamela Yatsko; Health

January 1981 (Revised February 1982)
Case

People's Republic of China: Development Strategies and Performance

By: James E. Austin

Keywords: Development Economics; Growth and Development Strategy; Business and Government Relations; China

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February 2010 (Revised May 2010)
Case

Bardhaman (A): Shrachi and the West Bengal Housing Board

By: John D. Macomber and Viraal Balsari

A real estate developer decides whether to enter into a public private partnership with the government of West Bengal to develop a township on farmland. The decisions include whether to expand operations from the company's base in Kolkata to Bardhaman, 100 km away;... View Details

Keywords: Development Economics; Growth and Development Strategy; Business and Government Relations; Decisions; Private Equity; Design; Housing; Infrastructure; Projects; Real Estate Industry; West Bengal

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Business and Climate Change Course | HBS Online

creatively to develop business solutions that mitigate climate change Explore climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts’ scalability, costs, and benefits to inform decisions View Details

29 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles and Research Papers of 2014

focusing on thinking about what one has been doing. Management Practices, Relational Contracts and the Decline of General Motors Conventional explanations for General Motors'... View Details

02 Aug 2015
News

Global CEO of CBRE Pops Into Dublin

Keywords: property management; real estate; markets; Ireland; Real Estate

01 Dec 1996
News

Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World

and leading others. This is a fundamental concept discussed in Coordination, Control, and the Management of Organizations (CCMO), one of the MBA Program's most popular... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

Letian Zhang

Letian (LT) Zhang is an assistant professor of business administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit. He teaches in the MBA required curriculum.

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16 Oct 2014
News

Tampa Bay Rays Name New President

Keywords: baseball; sports team management; local government; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries

01 Dec 2015
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015

great business cultures, building on over a century of academic thinking. They share a simple, highly predictive measurement tool, the Total Motivation (ToMo) Factor, which enables managers to measure the strength of their business... View Details

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Leading Change and Organizational Renewal | HBS Online

Organizational Renewal equips experienced team leaders with tools and frameworks to anticipate and respond to external shifts, overcome barriers to change, and drive... View Details

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Government data and information sources for public entrepreneurship

Available data includes demographics, home sale statistics, health data, mortgage trends, school performance scores and labor data like unemployment, crime statistics and city... View Details

28 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets

when big scandals happen, like Enron and WorldCom, the weak link often turns out to be auditors. Managers are mostly truth-tellers but have incentives to embellish and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Accounting

January 1999 (Revised December 2020)
Case

The U.S. Banking Panic of 1933 and Federal Deposit Insurance

By: Julio J. Rotemberg and Sabina M. Ciminero

After highlighting some key developments in the banking history of the United States, the case illustrates the Banking Panic of 1933 and the way in which Franklin D. Roosevelt dealt with it at the beginning of his presidency. Describes the main components of banking... View Details

Keywords: Government Legislation; Insurance; Crisis Management; Financial Crisis; Banks and Banking; History; Business and Government Relations; Banking Industry; United States